Before we continue with the blog, we have some sad news to share. On March 20, Peggy’s son-in-law, John Crowfoot age 49, died suddenly. At her daughter Jeanne’s request, we are continuing our travels and resuming the blog.
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It started off to be another beautiful day. We had a quick breakfast and checked out of our lodgings. As we did so, our landlord gave us some travel hints that proved exceptional. Instead of following Rt. 4 down to Rt. 1 and on into Wellington, he suggested taking a back road off Rt. 4 to Pipiriki and down the Whanganui River and back to Rt. 4. He said that Rt. 4 would be very boring and the side road would only add about 45 minutes to the journey. He also said that he thought it was paved all the way. Well, guess what. It wasn’t paved all the way. There were about 40 km of single lane winding gravel road that took us through some of the most wild and beautiful country we have ever seen. It was anything but boring and it didn’t add 45 minutes, it added about 2 hours to the travel time. Peggy was glad that I was driving because she had her eyes closed half the time.
We finally reached Rt. 4 and followed it to Rt. 3 at a town called Wanganui. (-anganui must mean something in Maori language because it shows up in names everywhere.) It’s a beautiful town on the west coast of New Zealand’s north island overlooking South Taranaki Bight. As we were driving through the town, we spotted a sign to the Drurie Hill Elevator which peaked my curiosity – so we went up to check it out. The Drurie Hill elevator was built into the side of a very high cliff in 1919 to carry building materials to the top for development of the suburb of Drurie Hill. At the top of the hill is a memorial tower to the those members of the armed forces from Wanganui who were killed in WW I. We climbed to the top (a mere 104 ft.) and found the most amazing view of the town, river and ocean.
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From Wanganui, we made our way across the mountains again to Woodville and followed Rt. 2 to Masterton where we will be staying for the next couple of days, probably until Monday when we will catch the ferry to the south island.
Cheers,
Wayne & Peggy